[4eyes] Rotation schedule for joint 4Eyes-MIRAGE Lab meetings

[Pradeep Sen]

Hi everyone,

Last Friday, the five faculty members associated with the 4Eyes and MIRAGE
Labs (Hollerer, O'Donovan, Sen, Turk, Yan) met to discuss logistics for the
upcoming year, specifically to figure out how our joint meetings would be
run.
These general meetings are currently scheduled from 2-3pm on Thursdays
(although
we might be able to extend them to 3:30pm).

The main objective of these meetings should be that we are able to cover
technical material in enough depth to meet the needs of specific subsets of
our joint community, while at the same time being of enough general
interest
to warrant attendance by everyone in both labs. That would be the best use
of our joint meetings.

To this end, we identified two main research areas that should be
represented
at these joint meetings:

*Research Area 1:* Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning
*Research Area 2:* AR/VR, HCI, RecSys, Social Computing, Visualization

Our current plan is to alternate the presentations every other week between
these
two research areas.  So, for example, the first week will be a presentation
by
a student in Research Area 1, then the following week someone from Research
Area 2, and so on.

The hope is that students in one area would still find the presentations
from the other
area interesting/relevant/informative, even though they may not be quite
working in this
space.  So let's try this to see how it goes.

To get started, we need to start populating a rotation schedule of students
who
would present at each joint meeting. This presentation could be on your
current
research project, a pitch for a future project, a new set of ideas that you
think are
interesting or worth exploring, etc.  If you have a question about the
suitability of
a topic, please talk to the faculty responsible for that sub area.

So I have created the following Google Docs document to keep track of the
students
and the rotation schedule:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GV7H7LQF4mFC3RlAV_seZsR0zuhCkngOYE-buHciDrA/edit?usp=sharing

Please put your name down under your respective research area. I realize
that
many students could fit both areas, but please put your name under the one
that you think is your *primary* area.  We have done the same with the
faculty
as well.  I have taken the liberty of adding my students already as an
example.

In the end, we hope that we have roughly the same number students in both
categories so that each rotation takes equally long. Once everyone has put
their
names on one of these lists, we will devise a rotation schedule that
rotates through
all the students in the lab about one per week.  So if we have around, say,
16 students
signed up, it's going to be more than 4 months before anyone has to present
again.
Keep in mind that the rotation schedule can slip back as other special
talks or broader
plenary meetings are inserted into the schedule.

Once we have the rotation schedule in hand, you will be able to plan ahead
and see
roughly when you will be expected to speak next. And, if for any reason you
have a
conflict (e.g., you are out of town that day), then you can swap places
with someone
on the list as well.

Finally, we plan to start this week so I am looking for a volunteer in
Research Area 1
who wants to present this week to get things started.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Best,

-Pradeep

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Pradeep Sen
Associate Professor
UCSB MIRAGE Lab
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560
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